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Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle.

et. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. "Nor time nor place did then adhere." Every thing adheres together." Shak.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.